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"It's a grandiose adventure and a briskly comic farrago, and were they to have crammed any more drama onto this album it would have snapped." (Playlouder)

"Their umpteenth album finds them as innovative as ever, mashing up opera, classical and electronics to sound quaint, futuristic, winningly dumb and hugely intelligent at the same time." (The Guardian)

"This kind of ambitious talent for turning the ridiculous into the sublime is pretty rare, and it's basically really heartwarming to see a couple of guys more than 30 years into their career continuing to dick around and be absolutely great at it." (Stylus)

"As a letter in a recent NME put it: 'It's so great the rest of pop music might as well shut up shop for the rest of 2006.'" (Uncut)